What Does This Mean?
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Rugged is slang for having been the victim of a rug pull: "I got rugged" describes having invested in a crypto project whose developers pulled liquidity or abandoned it, or more loosely, having been scammed or betrayed in a degen/crypto context.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He put his whole bag into the new token and got rugged within an hour."
LORE & ORIGIN
Derived from "rug pull," the casual first-person verb form spread alongside the DeFi boom of 2020-2021 as traders' everyday way of describing their own experience of getting scammed.
FIRST SEEN
2020
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2020-2022 (DeFi boom rug-pull wave), still in everyday use
CURRENT STATUS
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Related To:Rug Pull
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